The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics
The Get More Smarter Podcast is a weekly overview of Colorado politics. The podcast is hosted by seasoned Colorado politicos Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Ian Silverii, former 9News talking head, former Denver Post Columnist, former Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado, and current has-been. Each week they dive into the local and national news, and for some reason, have had Governors, US Senators, Members of Congress, and countless local elected officials as guests over the years. The guys are also frighteningly good at predicting the future. No, really. Are you ready to Get More Smarter?
Episodes
255 episodes
Republicans are Literally Going to Kill People (feat. Karen Middleton)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, oh no! The big bullshit bill has hit some serious roadblocks! Wait, sorry, OH YAY! The big bullshit bill had hit some serious roadblocks! And by “some serious r...
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Season 3
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Episode 243
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1:13:29
It's All George Washington's Fault (feat. Rep. Jason Crow)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the big beautiful bullshit bill is banging around in the US Senate, and the longer it does, the worse it gets for President Trump and the Republicans who...
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Season 3
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Episode 242
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1:15:01
In Which Gabe Evans Becomes a Walking Punchline (feat. Jake Williams)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s no wonder there’s a clown car of candidates in Colorado’s 8th congressional district because the current incumbent is the biggest clown of th...
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Season 3
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Episode 241
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1:15:54
Yes, We Have No Bananas (feat. Tyler Duncan)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, another violent antisemitic attack hits the USA, this time very close to home as Republicans try to politicize the tragedy to gin up anger against immigr...
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Season 3
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Episode 240
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1:18:44
Every Day is TACO Tuesday (feat. Mike Littwin)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, what do you call it when you throw a press conference, get boo’d by the crowd so loud you can’t hear the questions from the press to try and sell a very ...
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Season 3
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Episode 239
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1:35:40
At Last, Rich People Get a Victory (feat. Jeni Arndt and Rahmin Sarabi)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans on the Federal level get ready to kick millions of Americans off the Medicaid rolls for no good reason…maybe. Either way, our 7th favorite me...
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Season 3
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Episode 238
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1:24:17
What the Hell Just Happened? (feat. Seth Klamann)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2025 legislative session has adjourned 'Sine Die,'which is latin for “a lot of things that happened this year made us want to die.” We check in with the Tru...
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Season 3
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Episode 237
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1:36:16
The Longest 100 Days of Our Lives
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, 100 days down, 1,359 to go: Donald Trump’s second nonconsecutive term in the White House is going extremely poorly by literally every metric, to t...
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54:09
Another Embarrassing Brief (feat. Rebekah Stewart)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, that constitutional crisis we keep talking about keeps getting worse -- at what point do the people who can maybe do something about it start doing somet...
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Season 3
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Episode 235
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1:26:58
Smells like Trumpstink (feat. Kevin Ingham)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with approval ratings for Republicans and Democrats alike in the gutter in Colorado and across the country, Democrats have one ally in the fight to bring their ...
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Season 3
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Episode 234
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1:32:38
A More Consistent Number of Jason Banes (feat. Sen. Jessie Danielson)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the race for Colorado’s next governor is officially on! And the winner will either be Attorney General Phil Weiser or US Senator Michael Bennet...
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Season 3
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Episode 233
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1:11:03
Does Trump have the "energy" to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act? (Feat. Silvio Marcacci of Energy Innovation)
THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s another special interview-only episode, mostly because Jason is still in the arctic setting tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by puffins and melting ice caps. Speaking of our apo...
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Season 3
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Episode 232
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48:11
Who Influences the Influencers? (Feat. Megan Burns)
THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it's a special interview-only episode! Where do you get your news? Who do you trust? And are you just a victim of an evil algorithm, or an informed and engaged citizen? Megan Burns is here t...
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Season 3
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Episode 231
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56:12
You Go, Canada (feat. "Canadian Jason Bane")
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast the race for the worst job in Colorado politics is back on! Who among us gets to be the next Chair of the Colorado GOP? Then, who wants to Chuck…
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Season 3
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Episode 230
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1:13:10
There are No Tariffs on this Episode (feat. Michael Dougherty)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hur...
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Season 3
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Episode 229
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1:25:39
Unprecedented Political Pandering to Putin (feat. Sarah Wilson Sohkey)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the brilliant businesspeople and billionaires that are currently running the country are driving the economy off a cliff; as Donald Trump’s...
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Season 3
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Episode 228
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1:35:13
What Are We Even Doing Anymore?
On this episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, "Baby of the Show" Sam Silverii made quite a bit of news as his mom had to schlep him across the country just to be able to do her job forcing Hous...
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Season 3
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Episode 227
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51:44
Putting the Fun in Fungible (featuring Sen. Jeff Bridges)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we already make the joke about the actor Jeff Bridges in the intro to the interview but we’ve got the Chairman of Colorado’s powerful Joint Budget...
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Season 3
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49:44
America Wakes Up to the Trump Threat (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Sam Silverii is three weeks old, which is five days younger than the Trump Administration, and even he knows what’s going on in DC is bonkers. We ...
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Season 3
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Episode 226
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1:22:03
Is Trump...Thanos? Fingers Crossed!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Jason Bane is joined by guest host Megan Burns as we continue to keep you updated on what you need to be watching as the Trump administrati...
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Season 3
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Episode 225
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1:06:26
We Apparently Can't Do Better Than This
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, President Trump hasn’t even been in office for two weeks, and he’s already breaking most of the country. Our seventh favorite member of cong...
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Season 3
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Episode 224
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1:07:17
Bonus Episode: An Interview with Colorado Media Expert Corey Hutchins
We have a bonus episode this week on the Get More Smarter Podcast: Jason Bane sits down with Corey Hutchins, who oversees the Journalism Institute at Colorado College, advises the Colorado ...
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Season 3
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50:15
So You're Living in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy (feat. Tom Pepinsky)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, as the Trump regime enters its first week and begins to lay the groundwork for the worst shit imaginable, Colorado’s Democratic leaders ready themselves ...
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Season 3
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Episode 223
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1:31:46